A developer over at StackMonkey wrote a bot that sells instances of his OpenStack cluster for Bitcoin, and the Twitter user @obitcoin is using it on Twitter. Truly we live in a frightening but awfully convenient digital age, made more convenient by devs like Kord Campbell, the developer in question. About the interesting use case the bot has become, Kord said that it was "the most ridiculous thing [he's] ever written for a marketing ploy." I'll say it is.

Kord jumps into a tutorial that shows you how to get started buying and setting up an instance of the OpenStack cluster. The first thing you need is a JSON template that's used for booting the instance. He provides an example of the modified JSON that StackMonkey utilizes for instance callbacks: